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How to Read Tarot: A Practical Guide

Skye Alexander · Adams Media
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Learn how to anticipate the future and shape the present in this new guide about reading Tarot cards.For centuries, mystics and clairvoyants have used Tarot cards to predict the future. But no special power is needed to read the cards with How to Read Tarot. This easy-to-follow guide can show...
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52 Things Husbands Need from Their Wives

Jay Payleitner · Harvest House Publishers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

I dont always understand what he needs or wants from me. Most wives want a heart-to-heart connection with their husbands. But men often communicate their needs in ways that seem strange to women. How to bridge the gap? Straight from a veteran dad and husband come these insightful, unexpected,...
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Strong for a Moment Like This: The Daily Devotions of Hillary Rodham Clinton

WILLIAM S SHILLADY · Abingdon Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Few people know that during the 2016 presidential campaign, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton received a devotion every day. Over the course of those 20 months, Rev. Dr. Bill Shillady - a pastoral friend of Clinton's - and a small team of other pastors provided the Democratic...
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The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times

Christopher de Bellaigue · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

A revelatory and game-changing narrative that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world. With majestic prose, Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth...
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

Karen Armstrong · Knopf
Format: Kindle Edition

From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence. For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general...
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Their Name Is Today: Reclaiming Childhood in a Hostile World

Johann Christoph Arnold · Plough Publishing House
Format: Print book

There's hope for childhood. Despite a perfect storm of hostile forces that are robbing children of a healthy childhood, courageous parents and teachers who know what's best for children are turning the tide.Johann Christoph Arnold, whose books on education, parenting, and relationships...
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Lawrence Wright · Vintage

National Book Award Finalist A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current...
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Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

Neil Patrick Harris · Crown Pub
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover

Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened? Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the "u" back in "aUtobiography"? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography!...
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One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

Tullian Tchividjian · David C. Cook
Format: Book

Real life is long on law and short on grace—the demands never stop, the failures pile up, and fear sets in. Life requires many things from us—a stable marriage, successful children, a certain quality of life. Anyone living inside the guilt, anxiety, and uncertainty...
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A Beautiful Disaster: Finding Hope in the Midst of Brokenness

Marlena Graves · Brazos Press
Format: Paperback

Interweaving biblical insights and personal narratives, this eloquently written book shows how God often uses suffering and desert experiences to form us into Christ's image. Marlena Graves shares her experiences of growing up poor in a house plagued by mental illness as a means to explore...
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The Food and Feasts of Jesus: The Original Mediterranean Diet, with Menus and Recipes

Douglas E. Neel · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

The New Testament is filled with stories of Jesus eating with people—from extravagant wedding banquets to simple meals of loaves and fishes. The Food and Feasts of Jesus offers a new perspective on life in biblical times by taking readers inside these meals. Food production and distribution...
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Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

Anne Lamott · Riverhead
Format: Kindle Edition

Publishers Weekly10/28/2013 Lamott's (Help, Thanks, Wow) latest inspirational title explores how we can find significance in the face of pain or disaster. Readers are guided by an older, wiser Lamott than we met 20 years ago, when Operating Instructions was published. This narrator...
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Haunted Springfield, Missouri

Edward L. Underwood · The History Press
Format: Paperback

Echoes of a dynamic history still linger in Springfield, Missouri. The town square was the scene of a Civil War battle, a Wild Bill Hickok shootout and a tragic 1906 lynching. From the phantom landlord of Jefferson Avenue to the spectral bride of Grove Park Bridge, meet figures from the town's...
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The People vs Muhammad - Psychological Analysis

J K Sheindlin · J.K. Sheindlin
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

Is Islam a "religion of peace"? Was Muhammad the true and final prophet of God? Is the Quran the fulfilment of the Bible, and legitimately continuing the traditions of the Judeo-Christian scriptures? Perhaps one of the most audacious, shocking, unthinkable and highly controversial...
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